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Cooperstown Hall Of Fame Baseball Players
Cooperstown Hall Of Fame Baseball Players Author:Editors of Publications International Ltd. As writer Don Chabot put it, Lemmings head for the sea. The swallows come back to Capistrano. ... And baseball fans go to Cooperstown. Indeed, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, has been a mecca for baseball fans for more than sixty years. It s the oldest and most revered of all the sports Halls of Fame. Coop... more »erstown Hall of Fame Baseball Players tells the history of the institution itself and about the more than 300 players and other contributors to baseball who are enshrined in its hallowed halls. The book is complete through the 2010 inductions.
Cooperstown Hall of Fame Baseball Players includes images of every Hall honoree profiled, including his Hall plaque, action shots, bubblegum cards, and team portraits. The book is organized by era, so history buffs not only learn about the players but how they contributed to the history of baseball. Read about:
The Birth of the Game. Includes players like Cap Anson, Buck Ewing, Willie Keeler, and Alexander Joy Cartwright, a towering figure in the birth of baseball.
The Home Front. Baseball and wartime, and equal opportunity, when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier.
Manifest Destiny, New Frontier, and Recent Inductees. Chapters that provide information from mid-century to the present day, through the achievements of ballplayers like Hank Aaron and Cal Ripken, umpires like Nestor Chylak, executives like Lee MacPhail, and managers like Tommy Lasorda.
Cooperstown Hall of Fame Baseball Players includes a chapter on the great Negro League players plus one white woman who played a key role in Negro League franchises who are enshrined in the Hall of Fame. Written by a stellar group of baseball writers, Cooperstown Hall of Fame Baseball Players is a riveting, authoritative journey through professional baseball s most important figures.« less